If you’re riding along one of the main arteries through Catawba County, you just might get to catch a glimpse of your friendly extraterrestrial from a neighboring planet.

The western part of the state has been a hotbed of activity for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) recently, if you believe reports submitted to examiner.com. The website reported there was a sighting on Sunday and one on Monday in the area.

But local officials say they haven’t received any reports of anything unusual flying in the sky.

Roger Marsh of the Examiner reports on a Long View, NC, witness who claims that a 100-foot-long, oval-shaped object flying under 200 feet that moved over Highway 70.

The witness reported that the object,turned, "shrank to a black dot and then disappeared as if it shot forward at an impossible speed about 11:15 a.m. on January 30, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness had just turned onto westbound Highway 70 when the object was first noticed and assumed to be an airplane moving just above the high tension ...

The Mahwah Patch reports that William Puckett has been investigating a “diamond-shaped flickering” in the night sky over Mahwah for about a year, the second time in three years the former government worker's attention has been turned to the township.

A resident of Helena, Puckett is a retired National Weather Service meteorologist and Environmental Protection Agency worker from Washington state. In 2003, he formed the ‘UFO’s Northwest’ investigative team, which investigates reports from civilians who claim to see “unidentified flying objects.”

It
was one mile long and a half-mile wide, it flew faster and lower to the ground
than any plane, and its lights changed configuration before it erupted in white
flame and vanished. The UFO was
spotted again later and was followed by a pair of military jets and two massive
red, flying orbs.

Just
another uneventful night in the dairy cow pastures of north-central Texas? Definitely not. And the days that followed
weren’t normal either, with high school kids donning tin-foil space helmets and
no-nonsense cowboys wearing “Alien Capital of the World” T-shirts.

During a UFO flap across the southern U.S. in October 1973, Jeff Greenhaw, the 23-year-old
police chief of Falkville, Ala., said he encountered a strange being – and
produced a photograph to prove it.

Greenhaw told The Associated Press that on the night of Oct.
17, 1973 – just six days after the now-famous UFO abduction case in Pascagoula,
Miss. – he was investigating a call from a woman who claimed a spaceship had
landed in a nearby pasture.
Greenhaw said he didn’t find a UFO, but did come across a creature
dressed in what appeared to be a space suit ...

Roger Marsh of Examiner.com reports that an Indiana witness traveling along Route 31 near the Route 24 intersection reported watching hovering lights that moved for a few seconds before shooting straight up into the sky and quickly disappearing on January 29, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

"The lights hovered, and then went right for about 5 seconds," the witness stated. "Then it stopped for 2 or 3 seconds, and then went straight up until it disappeared."

An China Eastern Airlines flight crew reported a UFO sighting while flying north of the city of Alberta, Canada.

Crash-aerien.aero reports the Airbus A340-600 flight MU587, was flying from Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and was over Canadian territory around the coordinates 58 º N 111 º W, at a flight level 37000 feet, when the pilots reported to air traffic controllers that they observed a UFO about 40 miles southwest of their position at an estimated altitude of 41,000 feet.

The sun unleashed an X1.8 class flare that began at 1:12 PM ET on January 27, 2012 and peaked at 1:37. The flare immediately caused a strong radio blackout at low-latitudes, which was rated an R3 on NOAA's scale from R1-5.

The blackout soon subsided to a minor R1 storm. Models from NASA's Goddard Space Weather Center predict that the CME is traveling at over 1500 miles per second. It does not initially appear to be Earth-directed, but Earth may get a glancing blow.

The sun erupted on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic particle" event. The latter has caused the strongest solar radiation storm since September 2003 according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

NASA's Goddard Space Weather Center said the CME reached earth's magnetosphere – the magnetic envelope that surrounds the planet -- Tuesday, Jan 24, and the impact could last through next Tuesday.

GPS and other satellite communications could be affected for a week by the resulting ...

One of the
country’s earliest UFO sightings was reported in the April 20, 1897 edition of
the El Paso (Texas) Herald.

A man, who swore
he had not been drinking, told the newspaper he saw a cigar-shaped craft above
El Paso beginning at 2 a.m. that day.
He said the object flew 500 feet above him without making any
noise. He could see portholes
around the side and they revealed light on the inside of the aircraft.

The man also
said he heard voices coming from inside the UFO before it flew off to the
south, in the ...

The ISS Progress 45 cargo ship that undocked from the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment late Monday afternoon is set to serve as a launching pad Tuesday, ejecting an 88-pound mini-satellite named Chibis-M at 6:19 p.m. Chibis-M will spend several years in orbit studying the interaction of plasma waves with the ionosphere.

At the time of deployment, Progress 45 will be 62 miles above and 7,300 miles behind the station.

About three hours later, Russian flight controllers will command the Progress to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, where it will safely burn ...

An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported several objects resembling living beings were detected on photos made by a Russian landing probe in 1982 during a Venus mission.

Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia’s Academy of Sciences published research that analyzed the photos from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982.

The photos feature several objects, which Ksanfomaliti said, resembled “a disk,” “a black flap” and “a scorpion.” All of them “emerge, fluctuate and disappear,” the scientist said, referring to their changing location on different photos and traces ...

There's a buzz on the internet these days about alleged "strange sounds" being heard around the world. Some of the sounds are similar in several videos being uploaded from different regions of the world.

The atmospheric noise is profound in amplitude, and sometimes sounds like trumpeting angels. Another recurring theme is beastly sounding, roaring blasts reminiscent of alien monster movies like the 2005 remake of "War of the Worlds."

Many of the video uploads are obviously staged, with giveaways like stilted witness comments or a bad sound mixes that have the audio levels of the earth-shattering tone blasts vanishing ...

Out There With Ted is a comprehensive news service that shines light on the many shades of gray that encompass the UFO phenomenon and other varieties of “high-strangeness” observed since the beginning of recorded time.

Out There With Ted is committed to employing journalistic standards and common sense to navigate through the murky realms of the unknown, whether they are tantalizing glimpses of UFOs, ancient artifacts or modern day crop circles.

Perhaps it is our survival instinct to fear the unknown that contributes to popular ridicule of the subject. No doubt, it is more comfortable to dismiss the unknown than ...

Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings.

The image was taken in visible light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera during the spacecraft's flyby of Dione on Dec. 12, 2011.

This encounter was the spacecraft's closest pass of the moon's surface, but, because this flyby was intended primarily for other Cassini instruments, it did not yield Cassini's best images of the moon.

In this presentation, we will be taking a closer look at a very interesting bit of amateur video footage shot in Salida, Colorado back in 1995 by a man named Tim Edwards, showing an Unidentified Object in the sky.

Since Mr. Edwards shot this footage, it has been shown in several different television and film documentaries that deal with the UFO phenomenon - and with good reason in my opinion. This was a clear sky, broad daylight sighting (approx 9:30am local time), providing Mr. Edwards with excellent seeing/filming conditions. The ...